In memoriam to the victims of communism.

During the unveiling of the Monument to the memory of the victims of communism, President Bush remarked:

The Czech writer Milan Kundera once described the struggle against Communism as "the struggle of memory against forgetting." Communist regimes did more than take their victims' lives; they sought to steal their humanity and erase their memory.

As Vladimir Bukovsky, a former Soviet dissident who exposed the use of psychiatric imprisonment against political prisoners in the USSR, has observed: communism typically killed as many people in a day as the Inquisition killed in all the centuries of its existence.
One of the known victims was Father Popieluzsko, who was tortured and killed by the Polish secret police in 1984 for supporting Solidarity.

Here is a synopsis of some of the communist atrocities world-wide.

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